Lancet Reg Health Eur
August 2024
Background: The efficacy of front-line pembrolizumab has been established in studies that limit treatment duration to 2 years, but decision to stop pembrolizumab after 2 years is often at physician's discretion. ATHENA is a retrospective cohort study using a comprehensive administrative database aimed firstly at exploring the optimal duration of pembrolizumab and secondly real-life prognosis factors in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Methods: Using the French National Health Insurance database (SNDS), we identified patients with incident lung cancer in France from 2015 to 2022.
Purpose: To assess the prognostic factors and patterns of failure of patients consecutively treated with surgery and postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) for thymic epithelial tumours (TET).
Patients And Methods: Data from 192 TET patients who were operated and received PORT at a single centre from 1990 to 2019 was retrospectively analysed.
Results: Most patients had thymoma (77 %, B247%), were classified Masaoka-Koga stage III (35 %) or IV (32 %) and had a R0 (75 %) resection.
Introduction: Thymomas are rare intrathoracic malignancies that can relapse after surgery. Whether or not Post-Operative RadioTherapy (PORT) should be delivered after surgery remains a major issue. RADIORYTHMIC is an ongoing, multicenter, randomized phase 3 trial addressing this question in patients with completely R0 resected Masaoka-Koga stage IIb/III thymoma.
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